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What Percentage of Your Income Should Go Towards Paying Apartment Rent?

Income to Rent ratio

In the New York City apartment rental market, what is the appropriate rent/income ratio that is required to be paid by individuals seeking shelter?  Sadly if you’re a renter and gladly if you’re the building owner, market conditions mandate that many in NYC are paying 50% or more of their income for an apartment… And not for […]

Percentage Of Income Going To Pay Rent At An All-Time High! (Chart)

Spending over 40% of income on rent is nothing new in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami but… Those trends are taking hold in more and more metro areas around the country as well! So while rents continue on a sharp upward trajectory, it may surprise some (or not) that while the national average of monthly income […]